I'm going to say Nooooo, because I loved how they ended Bloom country, with everyone getting jobs with other cartoons, and Opus being the last to go.
So many classic strips.
Steve Dallas quiting smoking, getting abducted by aliens and then liberalized by them.
The two gophers who were entirely politically incorrect.
The meadow Party, Trump's brain transplanted into Bills head. Death Tongue.
I almost don't want it back, because it was so well done and there was really nothing left to do, I think he's bringing it back because his other works after the fact didn't work.
But here for you're listening pleasure.
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
I thought Steve Dallas' character arc ended with him coming out of the closet and leaving with Mark Slackmeyer from Doonesbury.
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We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and there); and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.
I thought Steve Dallas' character arc ended with him coming out of the closet and leaving with Mark Slackmeyer from Doonesbury.
It did at the end of Outland, but in the Opus sunday strips, he went through electroshock conversion therapy and was a confused middle-aged guy who was still gay but right back in extreme-over compensatory denial mode.
I gave up on Outland pretty quickly, It just didn't have the same magic.
So I guess I missed that part of Steve Dallas' life.
the last I saw of him was when he applied for a job in a DC Comic as Fratman was laughed out of the meeting and took a job in that horrid cartoon Cathy.
Hodge Podge and Pourtney took a job as back scene workers cleaning up after Marmaduke.
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
It's a bit costly (~$30 a book), but you can buy all 5 Bloom County collections and the Outland and Opus collections on Amazon.ca. They are hard bound, glossy printed, color when possible and have annotations from Breathed for ~80% of the strips.
I have a few of the softback ones as well, but I will honestly say, the annotations and the quality of the hardbound (IDW Published, alongside the Library Of American Comics) make them worthwhile.
Breathed often has a lot of hilarious things to say about the strips, their subject manner, and the objects of ridicule. His musings on people like Trump are priceless. The fact that each bit of commentary is strip-specific is something else.
Steve Dallas' Nipples - Berke Breathed Revives Bloom County
